Honors Bio Final Exam 2023

If a scientist in New Zealand was studying how a group of herbivores interacted with a group of omnivores, and all of their abiotic surroundings, what level of ecology would she be studying?

• Community

• Population

• Species

• Ecosystem

• Biome

What is a population?

• One individual member of a species

• a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• a community of different species and their environment

Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then, the honey guide birds eat as well.

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

The fox in this food web would be considered a:

• Tertiary Consumer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

Match the following

• This is an organism that supplies matter and energy, also known as an autotroph.

• Producer

• This is an organism that breaks down and gains nutrients from dead organisms.

• Decomposer

• This is an organism which feeds on, but usually does not kill, a larger organism

• Consumer

• This is an animal that lives by preying on other animals.

• Predator

• This is an organism that relies on other organisms for its food and energy supply; heterotroph

• Parasite

What happens to the amount of available energy in the pyramid as it moves up through the different levels?

• it increases

• it decreases

• it remains the same

In any food web, the organisms that are responsible for converting raw energy into usable chemical energy are collectively called ________ while organisms that recycle the nutrients trapped in dead organisms are collectively called ________.

• producers;consumers

• producers; decomposers

• consumers; decomposers

Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures.  These are known as

• vestigial structures
• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• fossil structures